#26

Are Conservatives nicknamed Tories due to Conservatories?

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#27

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#28

no pro-tory trolling in here please :frowning:

#29

I’ve been and voted, it’s not looking good here.

I have beer and pills now though

#30

I was in Tom Whyman’s band cos we were in the same year in 6th form :smiley:

the myspace page still exists :joy:

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#31

I went to see Kraftwerk last night so I’m still reeling from that, thankfully.

Cast my vote this morning. The people asking for my polling number were really friendly, one was wearing a Labour rosette, the other person a Green rosette. The 3 ladies in the hall of the baptist church were lovely too, one of them apologised profusely when she thought I wasn’t down as registered. Placed my vote (I’m in Caroline Lucas’ constituency so piss easy for me) and am hoping she retains her seat tomorrow morning as she’s utterly brilliant and I’m really proud to call her my MP.

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#32

I thought it was just a tweet about an old lady making a joke. I’m not very clever apparently.

#33

Beer tennis!

#35

genuinely thought this at first

#36

Dog treats should be evenly shared between all the good girls and boys

#38

Tellers innit, just outside the polling station, so s’all good

#39

I assume he means the people outside who ask for your number after you’ve voted - so they know who to chase later in the day.

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#41

I think it’s because the original two parties in our country were Whig and Tory. The Liberals and the Conservatives were meant to be sort of progressive successors but I think Tory was used to refer to the Conservatives as a kind of negative commentary and got adopted?

(I’m sure Google/Wikipedia has a proper answer.)

#42

So in 2117 they’ll be calling themselves “The Tory Cunts”

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#43

This didn’t post properly for some reason. Redistribution of biscuits!

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#44

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#45

Aye, that’s all they were doing.

#47

Really pleased to see more positive political engagement than ever within my friendship group, wider community, even on here and we’re basically politics nerds as it is.

Make no doubt about this, we’re going to need to stick together more than ever in the coming years. I love the people in my echo chamber and hope it gets even comfier.

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#48

Another nice thing that’s come out of this is that, given the fact that the BBC can’t really do a whole lot of reporting on what’s going on, they’re resorting to some gentle silly season stuff. Right now they’re running a story headlined Mango Bonanza, which is lovely in itself, but also I really like mangoes and it’s good news! Sort of feels like a reminder of what news used to be, less hideous awfulness and more reports on exotic fruits :pineapple: :banana: :melon:

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#49

not actually by the polling station but did see this cheeky little geezer earlier.

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